The Child Workers
What some of the children were expecting to attend in Ivory Coast that was not cocoa farming.
What is school
The item Representative Eliot L. Engel put $250,000 towards, that was denied and deemed unnecessary.
What is a child labor free label
The tool that most workers use on the cocoa farms.
What is a Machete
The term of the "Big Boss" who sends the children to work.
What is Gran Patron
What lots of chocolate products are made using.
What is child labor
The country that many of the child workers in Ivory Coast come from.
What is Burkina Faso
The company that promised to buy 100% certified chocolate and reduce child labor in west Africa.
What is Hershey
The source of the milky white water many workers in Ivory Coast drink on break.
What is a pond
The amount of money parents would get paid to send their children with human traffickers to cocoa farms.
What is $250
The amount of time, in years, that is has been since major chocolate companies have pledged to reduce the amount of child labor in their products.
What is 20 years?
How many of the children were forced to work on Ivory Coast cocoa farms.
What is human trafficking
The year outlined in the Harkin-Engel protocol that chocolate companies would have to have child labor free products by.
What is 2005
The place that the cocoa farm workers sleep in.
What is a hut in the woods
The amount the Gran Patron charges for each boy for one week.
What is $9
After missing both the 2005 and 2010 deadline, chocolate companies are hoping to reduce child labor by 70% by this year.
What is 2020
The age range of the workers when they arrived in Ivory Coast.
What is 10 to 12 years old
The name of the initiative that the chocolate industry created to coordinate the chocolate companies' efforts to abolish child labor.
What is the International Cocoa Initiative
The country that the cocoa farms are in.
What is Ivory Coast
The average yearly income of a cocoa farmer.
What is $1,900
The companies that can't confirm nor deny if their products were made via child labor.
What is Hershey, Mars, and Nestle
The percentage of illiterate people in Ivory Coast.
What is 44%?
One source that chocolate companies are using to get child labor free cocoa. The certification of these sources was soon noticed to be easily avoidable and not mandatory, making them not the most reliable.
What is Fairtrade, Utz, or Rainforest Alliance
The percentage of rural Ivory Coast that doesn't have access to electricity.
What is 60%
The average wage a boy gets per week for working on a cocoa farm.
What is about $4.50
The solution that could help reduce a big problem that causes child labor in the cocoa industry that many big chocolate companies are reluctant to use.
What is paying more for cocoa